Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,085, Samuel Gammon, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Gammon, Samuel
N 23,085
Susanna
CONTENTS

Wm D. Hammond July 29/49
Reported July 27/49
3445
Name Susanna Hammond, widow of Samuel May who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26, Dollars 66, Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of July 1849 and sent to
Miss P. Madison Hartfield, Ms.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2. 1848, Page 12 Vol. 1

Let. to Job Prince Jan 18, 1840
2394 Maine
Samuel Garrison of Hartford in the State of Maine who was a Pirate in the Company commanded by Captain Hall - of the Regt commanded by Col. Phinney in the Massett line for 8 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Decem 1832 and sent to J. G. Cole Duckfield Me
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $37.99 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 1832 15.33 $53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ebenezer D. D. Smith Clerk, Book S Vol. 1 Page 60

4975. Saw Ganym in application common

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Lincoln ss.
ON this 17th day of August - A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Samuel Garrison a resident of Hatfield in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged 79 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
that he entered the service at Yorktown in the then United States State of Virginia in the month of May he thinks in the year 1775. & enlisted into a Company commanded by Captain Nest Williams of Col. Edmund Phinnegs Regiment of Massachusetts Troops, for eight months and marched to Brattleboro, Massachusetts, where he was stationed during the whole of said term and when he was discharged after having completed his said term, having been employed in building fort & the ordinary duty & guard duty.
Said Garrison says he was born in the year 1753 at Cape Elizabeth in Maine - that he knows of no record of his said name existing - that he lived in said Yatham when called into service in 1775 in D. Maine since the war then he moved into D. Hatfield where he has lived ever since - That he was a volunteer in the service - that he recd. Col. Groomes Regiment & Lieut. Col. Dose of the Troops serving with those of his Corps - That he received no written discharge.
He state the names of William Wayfild & Gresham Davis as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for truth & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate  Samuel Garrison

Mr. William Hayford of Hartford Gulliana & Gershon Davis of Stockfield both of said county, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Samuel Gammon who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we believe him to be 77 years of age that he is respected & beloved in his neighborhood where he resides & have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
W tn Hayford Gershon Davis
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court
Stephen Emery Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. Said applicant having adduced the depositions of Richard Hine, Silvester Gammon, as also the affidavits of William Hayford & Gershon Davis, all under oath duly administered in corroboration of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Gammon for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

6373 Susannah Gammon
M rs
Act 7. July 38
died in 1839

State of Maine Oxford County ss
On this nineteenth day of September, eighteen hundred thirty nine personally appeared before the court of Probate holden at Turner within and for said county of Oxford, Susannah Garrison a resident of Hartford in said county aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Samuel Garrison who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, that she has good reason to believe, and does believe that her late husband, the aforesaid Samuel Garrison served as a private soldier eight months in the Revolutionary war, that she is not able to state the name of the officers under whom he served, nor the year in which said service was performed, but for the evidence of said service she refers the Department to said Samuel Garrison's declaration

and the evidence accompanying the same under the act of June 7 th 1832 upon which said Samuel Garrison obtained a pension certificate dated the first day of December eighteen hundred thirty two, and numbered (2594) She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Garrison at Gorham in said State of Maine on the twelfth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, and that Rev Mr Thatcher Solemnized the marriage, that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Garrison died at said Hartford on the ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seven- teen hundred and ninety four A.D. at the time above stated, that her Maiden name before her marriage with the said Garrison was Peckins - and that she has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the decease of her husband the aforesaid Samuel Garrison.
Susan A. Garrison
Witness Levi Stowell
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above said Before me Francis Ransom Judge

State of Maine
Before me, the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Oxford do hereby certify that Lyman Rawson before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Susanna Gammann for a Punsue. I also further certify that Job Prince before whom two of foregoing Depositions were taken and whose genuine signature is affixed to the same is a Justice of the Peace in & for each and every County in this State and that full faith & credit are due to his acts as such. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of November A.D. 1839.
Levi Stowell, Regr.

State of Maine
Gorham October 3 d 1839
Cumberland County
I Russell Spinnell Clerk of the Town of Gorham do certify that in the Records of Publications by Caleb Chase as recorded in the records of said Town Book Vol Page 23 d the Publication of Samuel Gammon and Susannah Perkins is recorded as follows viz
Samuel Gammon of Gorham Entered his name and purpose of Marriage with Susannah Perkins of Gorham October Fifth seventeen hundred and seventy-six
Attest Russell Spinnell Town Clerk
I Russell Spinnell do depose and say that I have made diligent search and can find no record of the marriage of the said Samuel & Susannah that there does not appear any record of any marriage solemnized by the late Rev. Mr. Thacher during the years 1776 & 1777 and that there is no record of the births of their children
Attest Russell Spinnell Town Clerk
I Russell Spinnell as above named Depose and say that I held the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Gorham and that the above Publication is a true extract from the records of said Town now in my possession with the exception of the dates which is expressed on the Records of said Town in fair legible figures as follows October 5 th 1776
Attest Russell Spinnell

State of Maine Cumberland County } ss
In this fourth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Charles Danforth a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Russell Finnell above named Town Clerk of Gorham a person well known by me and entitled to full credit as a Witness and made oath that the within extract by him subscribed is truly copied from the records of said town the dates being written out in words which are put down in figures only on the records as above stated with no other alteration
Charles Danforth Justice of Peace

I Abigail Garrison of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy nine years, testify and say, that Samuel Garrison, late of Hartford in this County deceased - was a Brother of mine and that according to my best recollection the said Samuel Garrison was married to Susannah Perkins at Gorham about sixty years ago - my Brother Samuel & I, both resided in my father's family at the time of his marriage - I attended the wedding & well recollect - that it was late in the fall or the first of the winter, and that Rev Mr Thatcher solemnized the marriage, but from the great lapse of time am not able to state precisely the day or year - but think I was about twenty years old at the time of said marriage
Witness
Abigail her Garrison Mark
Betsy Gove
State of Maine
Oxford ss September 7 th 1839 Personally appeared the above named Abigail Garrison a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribes
Before me Job Prince Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Otisfield September 9th 1839
Cumberland County
I Levi Patch, Clerk of the Town of Otisfield, do certify that in the Records of Births in said Town Book No 1 Page 2 d the family of Mr Samuel Gamman is Recorded as follows
Children of Mr Samuel Gamman & Susannah his wife (Siz)    Edmund Gamman was born at Gorham April 7 th  1770    Samuel Gamman Jr was born at Gorham August 23 d  1770    Nancy Gamman was born at Gorham March 9 th  1773    John Gamman was at Otisfield October the 26 th  1775    Susannah Gamman was born at Otisfield June 2 d  1780    Stephen Gamman was born at Otisfield October 25 th  1790    Lekina Gamman was born at Otisfield February 23 d  1794    Perkins Gamman was born at Otisfield July 6 th  1796  
True Copy of Record Attest Levi Patch Clerk of the Town of Otis
Cumberland ss September 9. 1839
Personally appeared the above named Levi Patch of Otisfield a person well known by me and entitled to full credit and made solemn Oath to the truths of the above Certificate Before Me Robinson Cook Suss

I scoses Garrison of Oxford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine of lawful age do depose & say that in the Spring of One thou- and eighteen hundred & seventy five I enlisted into the Company of John Brackett, in the Regiment of Col Edmund Phinney, 3 Brigade of General Patterson for the term of eight months, during which period I served. I was then well acquainted with Samuel Garrison, who then resided in Gorham in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, who enlisted nearly the same time with me, into the Company Com- manded by Capt Hart Williams, of the same Regiment commanded by Col Ed- mund Phinney. Samuel Garrison enlisted for & served the same length of time & during the same Campaign that I did - We both marched from Portland, in the then District of Maine some time, as we arose, can recollect, in

near of the year of 1775, to Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & were there stationed till the expiration of the eight months for which time we were enlisted. We were cantoned in No. 2. & discharged, according to the best of my recol- lection in January of 1776. Samuel Garrison moved from Gosham aforesaid to Otisfield in the County of Franklin, & from there to Hart- ford in the County of Oxford aforesaid where he now resides. I am eighty years old & Samuel Garrison is two or three years younger than my- self. Samuel Garrison is a cousin to me, & our parents lived near neighbours to each other in the town of Gosham.
Attest Skeeth
Moses Garrison
Oxford Jany 10 1832
Then personally appeared Moses Garrison & made oath that the above statements by him described are wholly true. Before me James Skeeth

4.975~
admitted
private 8 th
26.66
J. G. Lee Buckfield Me

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Garrison  of Hartford in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 — 8 — As a Private Gen. Col. Phinney's Regt Capt. Hallett's Com  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Exeter  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. Bullock Examining Clerk.

Rep?
Maine 7600
Susanna Gammon widow of Samuel Gammon
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 9. March 1839 of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hall of the regt. commanded by Col. Plummer in the Mass. line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of September 1843 and sent to Edward Blake Bucksport, Maine
Whole amount due . . . . . $133 :30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 10

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4258
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STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, September 12 , A. D. 184 8
I  Charles C. Harmon
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS.
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Johnson W. Knight is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said W Knight is dated June 15, A. D. 184 8 , and will expire June 15 A. D. 184 5
and that the his , following Genuine.
SIGNATURE, purporting to be
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Harmon CLERK.

State of Maine } ss Cumberland County }
On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fortyeight personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of Peace within and for said County. Susanna Gammon a resident of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland aged ninetythree years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd of February 1840 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That She is the Widow of Samuel Gammon who was a Private in the War of the Revolution. The Company and Regiment in which he served she does not remember. And this Declarant states that she received the Amount of twentySix Dollars 66 / 100 as a Pension under the Act of the 17th of June 1844. She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Susanna her X mark. Gammon
Witness H. S. Spurr
Cumberland County ss Sworn to and subscribed on a day and year above written before me And I further certify the above named declarant is personally known to me and full credit may be had to her declaration.
Johnson W. Knight } Justice of the Peace
As she would known was interlined before signed and also the word not
and further certify that the for facts are added before signing her

4894
Lus. Gammon
$ 26:66 per an
4258
Job Price Turner Marie

State of Maine Cumberland County } ss.
On this fourteenth day of November A.D. 1873 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace within and for said County, Susannah Garrison a resident of Otisfield in said County of Cumberland aged Eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the third of March 1873, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Samuel Garrison who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, and for proof of the period of service of her late husband, as well the Regiment or Corps in which he served, she would refer the Department to the evidence accompanying her application, on which she was granted a Pension of Twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum under the act of July 7th 1838, the Certificate of which was numbered 7600 - payable at - Portland Maine -
She further declares that she is still a widow and unmarried.
witness: Henry D Spurr Joseph Spurr
Susannah Garrison
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before the subscriber who hereby certifies that the declarant is personally known to him as the person above represented Job Prince Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
County of Oxford p.
I Joseph G. Cole Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the County of Oxford hereby certify that Job Prince whose genuine signature is affixed to the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace throughout the State of Maine, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this fif- teenth day of November 1843
Joseph G. Cole Clerk as aforesaid.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that,
Charles Danforth
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated October 3 d 1838 and will expire October 3 1845
and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this fourth day of October Anno Domini 1839.
Charles Cobb Clerk.

I Edward Blake of Hartford in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged Sixty one years, testify and say that I have been acquainted with Samuel Garrison late of said Hartford deceased, for about thirty years, that I know he was a Revolution- ary Pensioner, that his certificate was dated the first day of December A D 1832 and numbered 2594. That he died at Hartford aforesaid, on the ninth day of March A D 1839 and that he left a widow by the name of Susannah, who now resides in said Hartford, and that she has remained a widow & unmarried ever since the death of her husband the aforesaid Samuel Garrison
Edward Blake
State of Maine
Oxford ss. September 26th 1839. Then personally appeared Edward Blake, well known to me as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed - Before me Job Prince justice of the Peace

Turner Nov 15 - 1839
Sir -
Herewith you will receive the application of Susannah Gannan for a Pension - & when you have any communication to make in relation thereto - please address to Prince Turner - Maine -
Yours as ever Job Prince
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comt of Pensions

Mar 16 1841
Sir: Gannons me
FREE
See! Post Richard Gannons of Boston
Washington City

South Hartford 12 March 1841
J S Woodworth Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I perceive that the Pension act of July 7, 1838 is extended by the late acts and I suppose brings the claim of Mrs Susanna Garrison within the provision of the act as her papers are on file and as I suppose all in proper order I wish they may be soon attended to as in case there must be a new application will the department inform me
I am Sir respectfully your
Edward Blake

State of Maine
Furner Nov 1843 -
Dear Sir
Herewith you will receive the Declaration of Ascension of Emma under the Act of March 2 d 1843 for a Pension - and you will please address the subscriber, when you have any communication to make in relation thereto
Job Prime
J. L. Edwards Esq

May 5. 43
Sm Gammun at 38 n. allowed
Herbert L. Osborn, Esq.
Superintendent of
The Peninsular Office
Washington City

Ed. Edwards Esq. South Hartford April 26 1843
In the Papers of Mrs Susanna Garrison widow of Sam l Garrison were duly filed in your Office for a pension; but as him has since died since the passage of the act of July 7 1838 she was not then entitled to a Pension. I wish to know if she is embraced in the Pensions Act and whether the Papers there on file are sufficient. That is whether she must file all new papers or whether she will apply like these widows who did draw the full pension.
I am Sir Respectfully Yours
Edward Blake
Ms. are also widows entitled to draw whose husbands have died since July 7 1838.

July 6 1843.
Maria
Brookfield July 3 d
Daniel Garrison
Free
L. Edwards Esq Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Washington

No 6373
Susannah Gammon
M H
Act July 7 1838
Admitted
8 months private
$26.66 per an.
Edward Blake Esq. Bucksfield Maine

Report
Maine 4258
Susanna Gammow widow of Samuel Gammow who was a Private in the Massachusetts line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars Sixty Six Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of January 1844 and sent to Job Prince Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 5

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
con
File No. 23085-
Susanna Gammon
wid of
Samuel Gammon
Paiv Rev. war.
Act: Feb 2 d  /48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6379. Rejected
See let to Job Prince Jan 18, 1840. " " " Ed. Blake Mar 16, 1841. " " " Same May 5, 1840.
act 7. July '38.
2594

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838, intitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."
State of Maine ss. On this twenty second day of May in the year eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber Lyman Ransom Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Oxford in said State, Susannah Gammon a resident of Hartford in the County of Oxford aforesaid aged eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 intitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows." That she is the widow of Samuel Gammon late of Hartford aforesaid, deceased, and who served in the War of the Revolution under Capt. Saint Williams & in Col. Pownall's Regiment.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Gammon on the twelfth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Gammon aforesaid received a Pension from the United States of twenty six dollars and sixty seven cents per annum, and for the proof of his service she refers to the evidence on file in the Pension Office in his case; that he died on the seventh day of March 1838; That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz, at the time above stated; and for proof of her marriage she refers to the papers on file in the Pension Office in her original application and which was then rejected, as well witness also as for the time of his death. Susannah Gammon sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me Lyman Ransom Judge.

Richard Hine
to Samuel Gammon

I Richard Hine, of Woodford in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged eighty five years, testify & say that I was a soldier in the American army, during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for about five years at different periods, one of which was in a company commanded by Capt. Monmouth Stevens of Col. Edmund Phinney Regiment, into which I enlisted at Gukham in the County of Cumberland then District new State of Maine. for eight months and marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I completed the service of the  six months sending a man in my stead for four months. Further say that I well knew that Samuel Garrison was residing in said Woodford did enlist into the same service of eight months and served the same in  the  service  in  the same company. He belonged to the same Regiment with myself and sent to the same company. He belonged to Capt. Hart William Company & still at said Gukham in June 1775. I have lived eighty five years since then & well knew him to be the same man who served with me as aforesaid. I do not know certainly how long said Garrison served because I served personally but not the eight months service which he served for believing that said Garrison did serve the whole period of eight months.
Richard Hine Samuel H. Brown Samuel Garrison State of Maine. Oxford County ss. July 24. 1832. Then the abovenamed Richard Hine, to me known as a man of truth personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Samuel H. Brown (notary public of the Peace)

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that James S. Keith & Samuel F. Brown (whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions) of Messrs Gammon & Richard Hine , are severally Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year A. D. 1832
RK Goodenow { Clerk of Oxford County Courts.